[FF7PC-98/Steam] Replacement FMVs, footage from AC/CC (2017-2-18)

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why is it that vista has problems and XP doesnt? is it cuz of admin privileges or wut?
 
Well Vista is just a buggy OS to begin with. And Its still new. Just wait till Win 7 is released. I heard Its alot better than Vista.
 
Actually, I had much more problems with FF7 on XP than on my Vista. I have managed to make the game play most of other videos by first installing K-Lite Codec Pack and then putting FFDShow VFW in charge. Yes, FFDShow Video Decoder does not work with the game but FFDShow VFW is just fine. I did have a little problem of Nero codec's interference with FF7 but that's solved.

About Windows Vista quality as an OS however, I have learned that there is always a cliche in form of "[X] is horrible, fall back to [Y] and wait for [Z], which is great" where [X] is the current Windows OS, [Y] is the predecessor Windows OS and [Z] is the upcomming OS. For eight years, it was fashionable to say "XP is horrible, fall back to 2000 and wait for Longhorn (=Vista), it's great" while beta copies of Vista know as Longhorn were worshipped. Nowadays, "Vista is horrible, fall back to XP and wait for 7, which is great" is in. Live long enough and you will hear: "7 is horrible, fall back to Vista and ..."
 
i no we're waaay off-topic and im sorry about taht grimmy... anywayz i get wut ur saying, it will be some time b4 some1 flames about Win 7 really... every1 says its gna be the shiznit but as u mentioned, something's gna be wrong with it... have u guys seen that vid about windows xp vs windows vista? the guy explains how xp prevails over vista... in an hour vid! lol
 
Actually, we are not very much off topic: Playing AVI video clips is always a problem and FF7 video clips are also AVI.

To avoid these problems, you have two sure-fire ways:
1. Install FF7 on a clean environment. Convert the new Grimmy's videos to the same format as those of FF7 (True Motion 2 codec). This one the easier way but has too many drawback and consequences to suffer, not in regard to FF7, but to your other uses of a computer
2. Become a codec genius and command your computer to handle video decoing the way you want. This one is the more difficult way but is sooooooooooo very effective.

About the OS video you mentioned as a sidenote, my mother has taught me not believe everything that I see on TV.
 
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There is no need to convert vids to use TM2.0. It was provided with the install disc to play the proprietary FFVII vids. They could have easily done all the original vids with a more universal codec and format but they wanted to protect there property. Anyone with a good Codec pack like K-Lite should be able to play all these vids without problems. I also suggest always using Aali's custom driver(since everything is allready included). I also have both XP and Vista on my computers and tested these vids on both. Any problems people have encountered using these vids have come down to being a user error, not a problem with the vids or the os.
 
Any problems people have encountered using these vids have come down to being a user error, not a problem with the vids or the os.
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E.X.A.C.T.L.Y! Well said. That's what I was trying to say all along.

They could have easily done all the original vids with a more universal codec and format but they wanted to protect there property.
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I'm afraid you are apparently wrong becase:
1. The game is released in 1995, when True Motion 2 (and perhaps Cinepak) was the only viable option. MPEG-1 and Indeo were too computationally heavy back then, especially when it came to rendering 3D images on top of it!
2. A Video For Windows decoder for True Motion 2 is included right on the game CD. By installing FF7 on your computer, your Media Player will be able to decode the movies. If they wanted to employ cryptography as a mean of protection their property, they'd have kept their video format in escrow, only accessible to game's engine.

There is no need to convert vids to use TM2.0.
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This one the easier way but has too many drawback and consequences to suffer, not in regard to FF7, but to your other uses of a computer.
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Yes, you are BOTH right!  :-D

Anyone with a good Codec pack like K-Lite should be able to play all these vids without problems. I also suggest always using Aali's custom driver(since everything is allready included).
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Yes. I'd like to stress that if anyone's video playback is promblematic he or she shouldn't blame it on Aali's driver. It is not involved in decoding. (Perhaps involved in splitting, muxing or rendering but not decoding.)
 
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fleetcommand, Problematic playback??? The only problem I have on my desktop is an audio sync problem with vids 1280x960 or larger(I can overcome the problem by giving FFVII.exe high priority). That's why I haven't released Blu-ray vids at that size. I released everything else at 960x720 which play smooth without audio sync problems on my desktop. However my laptop has problems playing the HQ vids( They freeze frame-skip and the audio is never in snyc),so I only use the original quality vids on it. If you are wanting to use the larger vids and your system is having problems I recommend you convert them to a smaller size(640x480) so they can play more smoothly.

Oh about the TM2.0 codec. I was just saying what my research had told me. That it was a defunct encoder developed by a third party for FFVII PC and now it is owned by another third party. But hey the net is full of incorrect info.
 
^ I said "if". And "you" in my message means general public -- anyone who reads! Not you specifically. But I understand it was a mistake on my part. I'm editing it.

EDIT: Actually, True Motion 2 codec is created by Duck (now On2) but not for Final Fantasy VII. True Motion 2 is successor to True Motion S 1.0, which was a successor to True Motion hardware codec. It was a famous codec back then.
 
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Yes. I'd like to stress that if anyone's video playback is promblematic he or she shouldn't blame it on Aali's driver. It is not involved in decoding. (Perhaps involved in splitting, muxing or rendering but not decoding.)
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Maybe you should get your facts right before dropping a big load of knowledge like that. The driver uses FFmpeg for playing videos, no directshow filter is going to influence that in any way. Demuxing, decoding and rendering is all done by the driver without loading any external components.
 
You are saying the same thing as I do: Driver doesn't decode. FFmpeg does.

EDIT: Unless perhaps you don't mean the famous FFMpeg which uses libavcodec to decode True Motion 2.
 
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Sure, but FFmpeg is a part of the driver, so any problems with it should be directed to me AKA blame it on the driver :-P
 
ummm......well I sure like the driver. It hasn't done me wrong yet. Plus without it the hq vids are worthless.
 
EDIT: The word "you" here refers to Aali.
What? You are willing to responsibility for FFmpeg?  :-o Looks like a gesture of good faith to me. But isn't the most you can do is to forward the problem to its developers? Or are you one of the developers? (Sound logical, given what I've seen of your programming abilities.)

Now would you like me to modify my former statement and write "I'd like to stress that if anyone's video playback is promblematic he or she should blame it on Aali's driver because he is willing to take responisibility"? Or has it yet become clear that the second sure-fire method of avoiding the video problems is to become a Codec Genius?
 
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You should tell me about it because the FFmpeg team does not support 3rd party applications in any way shape or form, so they will just shoot you down instantly if you come to them with problems that could be my fault.
 
Well back on topic.. kinda.  Just bought Advent Children Complete and it looks PHENOMENAL.  Grimmy307, do you have it yet?  I think they also redid the scene with Sephiroth walking through flames... the fire looks different.
Unfortunately, no blu-ray capability on either of my computers  :-(
 
The hair in ACC looks all aliased. Other than that, yes, it looks PHENOMENAL. Or maybe PHEREMONAL.
 
Obesebear, I do have ACC. Every  remade scene was remade again. When seph is in flames you can actually see the rubble in the fire.
 
Yeah I was kind of afraid they were just releasing it to make more money but they obviously took a lot of time redoing a lot of scenes.  I was hoping to help with remaking the vids you uploaded, but like I said, no blu-ray on my computer  :cry:
 
ACC is totally the sh!t on blu-ray. I will do new cuts from that source soon, but I won't start for at least two weeks. I  am pretty consumed with prp right now and want to make a few more models before I get back into editing.
 
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